Re: VIO query

There isn't a 1-to-1 relationship between partitions and the VIO servers they may use.

There may be 3 VIO servers, and a partition could be using virtual resources from all, none or some of them at the same time.

In terms of virtual networking, the partitions have no concept of being connected to a VIO server. The partitions put packets onto the PowerVM virtual ethernet switch, and some of the VIO servers depending on configuration move that data to the physical network.

For storage, there is a more direct relationship, but it's still not 1-to-1 and is (partition) 1-to-many (vio).

I'll say the same thing I tell my team mates - if you want to know, you have to draw the diagram. Partition to VIO configurations are documented in several places, HMC, VIO, Client and the best way to know what's going on is use the standard commands (lscfg, lsdev) and the HMC and draw a diagram.